Associate Transportation Planner

Join our Public Works Department as an Associate Transportation Planner and help shape the future of public transportation in Lodi! This position offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, very hands-on environment, with a broad range of projects to help manage the City of Lodi’s transit system. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented and has strong analytical, project management, and communication skills, is able to adapt to changing priorities, and is proficient in the use of planning tools such as GIS and is familiar with state and federal transportation regulations.

Job descriptions are intended to present a broad and general range of duties which includes, purpose, responsibilities, and scope of work. Job descriptions are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job.

Performs professional work in the field of planning, public administration, environmental analysis, and economic development, as it relates to transportation. The Associate Transportation Planner plays a critical role in overseeing transit administration, transportation programming, and transportation initiatives that enhance efficiency, accessibility, and sustainability of the City’s mobility network.

This is the full journey level class in the planning series. Positions in this class have the knowledge and ability to perform a variety of professional planning duties for the City. Work is of a greater complexity, with the incumbent learning and performing tasks in an independent nature. This is a flexibly staffed class series in that the Assistant Transportation Planner may reasonably expect to progress to the Associate Transportation Planner with training, satisfactory performance and management approval.

Receives direction from higher level personnel. May exercise technical or functional supervision over lower level planning class positions and other personnel.

Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Performs a wide range of administrative duties related to the operation and administration of the Lodi Grape Line public transit system;
  Develops medium to long-term plans and strategies for transit service and transportation programming.
• Collects, maintains, updates, monitors, and analyzes data required for planning activities;
  Conducts field surveys;
  Documents findings and justifies recommendations;
  Utilizes Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other technical tools to support planning activities;
• Performs, and assists in performing, routine to moderately difficult research studies;
  Prepares technical reports and recommendations for a wide variety of transportation issues;
  Interpretation of data, plans documents, technical reports, regulatory directives, and program guidelines.;
• Prepares data for Federal, State, and Local reports, adhering to strict regulatory requirements;
  Maintains project documentation, databases, and reports per regulatory requirements;
  Manages grant applications; ensures grant requirements are met during implementation. Assists in the completion of reporting requirements;
• Leads in the development and management of projects and contracts from start to completion, including managing project teams;
  Ensures regulatory compliance in contracts and during procurement;
  Exercises oversight over contracts;
  Coordinates with contractors, consultants, and internal staff to ensure delivery of projects;
  Performs administrative duties necessary for project delivery;
• Leads public meetings and outreach engagement activities;
  Performs more complex public engagement;
  Represents City interests at regional committees and working groups;
  Prepares materials in-print, and online (webpage and social media);
  Prepares graphics including plans, signs, forms, and exhibits;
• Participates in multi-agency coordination for larger-scale initiatives;
• Develops program budgets;
• Develops policies and plans;
• Performs other duties related to the operation of the department and the City including additional duties that enable the department and City to meet the diverse needs of its community.

• Transportation planning principles as they pertain to transit (fixed route bus routes, demand response, scheduling, run cutting, bus stop locations, bus stop amenities, policy, regional connectivity) and multimodal transportation;
  Short- and long-range transit planning;
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including Arc Map and ArcGIS Pro for data analysis, database maintenance, and data visualization;
• Strong competence with technology, enabling understanding of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for transit uses, such as CAD/AVL, fare payment, and GTFS; use and operation of computers and specialized peripheral equipment for transit technologies;
• Principles, practices, procedures, and information sources of transportation, economic, environmental and/or social concepts applicable to the transportation planning process;
• Regional and…